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Snowbowl. A brief overview. The controversy over snowmaking. The Debate. The San Francisco Peaks have long been the source of land-use conflicts The resort is seeking to manufacture extra snow using wastewater from the city of Flagstaff.

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The controversyover snowmaking

The Debate

The San Francisco Peaks have long been the source of land-use conflicts

The resort is seeking to manufacture extra snow using wastewater from the city of Flagstaff.

The San Francisco Peaks are sacred to 13 tribes, and these tribes strongly oppose the use of wastewater on the mountain.

History of Snowbowl

1872 Mining Law

1948 Arizona grants Native Americans the right to vote.

1969 The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) was a Congressional effort to ensure that federal agencies consider the effects of their proposed actions on the environment.

1978The American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) was originally intended to protect all forms of Native American spiritual practices, but the law failed to protect sacred sites in subsequent court tests.

2002July. Sacred land protection legislation was introduced at the federal level and in California.

2004February. Forest Service issues the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on proposed Snowbowl development which indicates its support for the plan to make snow from reclaimed wastewater

2004February 2, Save the Peaks Coalition

2005June 10, The US Forest Service gave Arizona Snowbowl approval to make artificial snow.

2006January Ruling. (in favor of Arizona Snowbowl allowing them artificial snow to be made for skiing.)

Support of reclaimed water

The present-day Arizona Snow Bowl ski area hosts 30,000 to 180,000 visitors per year .

Visitor numbers fluctuate according to the snowfall, hence the resort is seeking to manufacture extra snow using wastewater from the city of Flagstaff.

Opposition to reclaimed water

The Peaks are sacred ground to the Navajo, the Havasupai, and the Hopi, Zuni, Hualapai, Yavapai and five Apache tribes.

http://savethepeaks.org/savethepeaks/pagetemp/background.html

www.sacredlands.org

Some environmentalists are also in opposition to the use of reclaimed waste water.